I have begun to believe my mind is full of tiny little topics that act like pimples.

No one can predict the order they start to fester in, or when they’ll get ripe and burst.

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Monday, 7 July 2014

Observations on a Cesspool






Taking a Stroll Past the Tar Pit
A First Hand Witness Account


by
Kristie Elgersma
This happened for me recently. And I want people to know.
I posted it last week but FB won't let me get back there to reshare it.
I think more people need to know..... Especially considering the Keystone XL and the Northern Gateway Pipeline Project as a current topic of conversation....
"...I wanted to see what Desmond Tutu saw. And James Cameron. And Neil Young.
I needed to see too
I haven't been to the Alberta Tar Sands since I was a young girl....
I have lived around industry for most of my life. An asbestos mining community in the early 90's, another community hosting a coal mine and a lumber mill later on in the 90's, Edmonton's East End Industrial in the 2000's... And in the most recent years another coal mine and numerous oil & gas installations.....
25 years later.... I went to see....
And absolutely nothing in my lifetime prepared me for what I witnessed a few kilometres north of Fort McMurray.
I have zero frame of reference to compare it to.
They are truly struggling to keep up with the amount of infrastructure required to accommodate the sheer number of travellers to and from Ft. McMurray.... The highways are being twinned slowly. But, it doesn't make up for the white crosses that line the ditches every few kms.... Some have flowers at their feet, some have hard hats hanging on them.... In one spot there are seven crosses in a row...
People have been saying for more than a decade how dangerous Highway 63 is. And they weren't embellishing the truth at all.
Oil & gas sites start a ways out before the city... Nothing that I am unused to....
What I'm not sure of is the haze..... Is it the Earth sweating because it was so hot? Is it mist? Is it smoke? Is there a fire down where? Is it smog? I never did find out......
The city of Ft. Mac itself is a beautiful city, lots of hills, forests and greenery surrounding it, with a river running through it.
Many people pressed into a small area and it shows with the diversity of housing in place and going up.
Suncor, Syncrude and Shell have taken up a competition of sorts to see who can out best the other at ass kissing to the community they are destroying.... A new arena, rec center blah blah blah..... Patting themselves on the back because they think they've done something fucking decent.
If you continue on North Bound, off to your right you'll see it for a moment: Flashes of metal, flame, smoke, no life, no green... And then it's hidden by hills.... They have screened themselves in very well for the first bit of the road.
If you keep driving, you'll pass boarding residences and tiny matchbox apartments put up by the companies to house their employees.... They reminded me of the jail north of Edmonton. So insane what we condition ourselves to.
Once you pass those, the road gets curvy and winding... You'll see a large beautiful lake in your right, and suddenly you hear the gunshots.... And then you realize that you're not looking at a lake, you're looking at a tailings pond and you realize you are surrounded by them, this toxic killy shit and the gunshots are to scare the birds away so they don't land on it, 2 million birds dead already and the pond liners are leaking and that's what is fucking up the waters up there, and 40 years of waste water byproduct from cleaning the tar sands and they don't know how to clean the water! they don't know how to clean the water! They.Don't.Know.How.To.Clean.The.Water. , and it is the whitest sand you've ever seeeeeeeeeeen....
All over the place in piles....
Because of our need for oil. That's why.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Automated guns firing to frighten nature to protect it.
So I continue on....
The haze is heavier... You can't see the sun. And the keening sound coming from the engine is not the engine. It's me. And by the time I hit the smoke stack you see in the pics below, I am sobbing openly and helplessly and entirely overtaken with grief.
Even in that place there are residences built. Humans live at the foot of that fucking monster.
I stopped at a little learning center. There is bucket there placed in the middle of the concrete. You could park four of my sized cars in that bucket. In the field this thing is attached to a huge crane.... This crane is not on a track. It's on triangular wheels that 'walk', 8 meters per side. 24 meters per complete rotation. The bucket thunders itself into the earth..



 Digging digging digging...

Because of our need for oil. That's why.
Next to it on my left is another machine. This thing looks like a 2D wheel with jagged grooves all the way around it. The grooves protrude outwards slightly, each groove is like a shovel....
Imagine a chainsaw taller than the back fin of a 747 airplane that you turn on and lower into the earth that digs for you and you MIGHT have an idea of the monstrosity I stood before..... 




The Buzz Saw
The build west for the Northern Gateway has already begun up there. They think they have already won.
I came to understand that seeing healthy coyotes was unheard of. Mangy, scraggly, missing fur, sickly looking... Knowing that they are scavenger creatures, preying upon the most vulnerable, the weakest, the sick... Just what are they eating?
I had no idea what the fuck I was walking into.
The rest stops were disturbing.... Women's phone numbers.... 'Emergency turban repair' scribbled above the toilet paper dispenser with an arrow pointing downwards.... 'Abandon all hope ye who enter the Mac'... Swastikas...
I had left all my OpHumanAngels gear at home stupid me coming in for a crash landing unprepared. I don't even know if I would have thought in those moments to reface their energy. Fuck.
I did for a moment see a huge 1.5 ft tall Guy Fawkes mask stenciled to the outside wall of a rest stop. There are those up there that get it. They
know.

It is how they have all said it is.
It is a monstrosity. A blight on the face of this living, breathing planet. Anyone who says it is making zero impact is lying to themselves...
I understand just how many people it is helping to survive, to live.... Every nation up there is surviving and living off of it. White, red, yellow, black. They are all there.
I needed to know what we are supposed to prepare for. I needed to know first hand what we speak out against. I plan to go back there once more. I hope to bring people with me. Emissaries. Reface that whole fucking place with chalk and notes.
As a side note, a friend that pays attention to MSM only, just let me know that Oklahoma has had 200 earthquakes so far this year.... They were stunned I already knew. Their first guess was fracking.
I had a hard time not flipping out.
I am losing my patience.
Maybe I just need to grieve for my mother. She is going to fuck us up right good the great equalizer that she is, I love her so..... </3
There is so much else on my mind but I've kept you long enough.
I love you. Thank you for listening and letting me share this with you...."

And that was a Song worth the Singing

Blaine Barrett


Thursday, 26 September 2013

An Open Letter to Dr. Anna Reid and the Canadian Medical Association


J’Accuse:

“Under Paragraph 1(1)33 of Ontario Regulation 856/93 the Canadian Medical Association and all of its members who refused to sign Medical Marijuana Applications have engaged in conduct and acts of omission relative to the practice of medicine that, having regard to all the circumstances would reasonably be regarded by members as

“Disgraceful, Dishonorable or Unprofessional.”

Dear Dr. Reid:

That is reality!
You, the whole collective body of your followers: every individual doctor following your suggestion (more likely Imperial Edict) to not support Medical Marijuana and refusing to sign applications is betraying his Oath as a Doctor. Oh yeah! I forgot!

You experts in Medical Ethics decided that “First! Do No Harm” was just a suggestion and really old fashioned so it was dropped from the Oath. The oath all of you modern egocentrics swore was not the Hippocratic Oath that entitles a Physician to the Honorific title of “Doctor”!

You are not Doctors. You are Corporations!

You are individual components of the humongous Monetary Sucking Machine which the modern Medical Profession has become with the abandonment of the Doctor/Patient relationship and its conversion to a Corporate/Client relationship based on moral turpitude.

I dealt with the ethical deterioration of the Medical profession in some detail in a guest blog the was published back in January by a fellow blogger and Marijuana Advocate.It was titled


The Profession Has Lost Its Character!

and can be seen at


It asks one simple question:

M.D.?
Medical Doctor? = Mental Defective? = Morally Destitute?

You are a collection of pretenders who assume the title in order to capitalize on the benefit that accrues to the title. You present yourself as a body of men worthy of the respect and the honour that is accorded to a Man of Exemplary Character who has devoted his life to the service of his patients: providing for their physical health and well being. Your bunch of imposters forgot or never bothered to learn the Six Pillars of Character that entitle you to that respect. You all were trying to figure out how to learn and manage the magnificent income that came with the Incorporation of your own little Medical Empire.

The interlocked Monstrous Medical Conglomerate that sucks money out of our extremely profitable system thanks you for your contribution. Providing all the required Medical Services and Materials on an international level and fixing prices by simple understanding is extremely comforting in these troubled times and the times are going to get very troubled for you.

For most of the past, the opposition to endorsing Medical Marijuana by you lot of greedy bastards has been based on fear of future legal liability. The potential risks related to its use in any manner of medical utilization have been exaggerated beyond all belief: You claim that 5000 years of testimonial evidence is not acceptable: (there is no risk in its use and that there are no adverse effects beyond a comforting kick from its THC content). There are no scientifically valid studies that demonstrate its benefit in any medical treatment. End of position!

Well you poor lot of pretenders; the internet and statistical data sharing just blew that all to hell and reveals the base fear that should be infecting you all

“What If the Fucking Stuff Works?”

All of you are willing participants in a farcical pretension that you are actual Doctors and believe in Medical Ethics! You are refusing to sign MMAR and the new MMPR applications for patients you know have a symptomatology that qualifies them for Licensure. That is the intentional betrayal of the Doctor/Patient relationship and intentionally Doing Your Patient Harm. That; to anyone with the intelligence to understand even the smallest concept of human decency qualifies as

Disgraceful, dishonorable and unprofessional

What is CMA Policy?

Canadian Medical Association policy describes the Association’s positions on issues relevant to the Canadian healthcare system, medical education, the practice of medicine, and issues of importance to Canadian physicians and their patients. CMA policy is a key instrument used by the Association to carry out its mandate to serve and unite the physicians of Canada and be the national advocate, in partnership with the people of Canada, for the highest standards of health and health care. CMA policy serves to inform decisions and actions of Canadian physicians, lawmakers, health policy decision makers, other health professionals, and the general public. Canadian physicians value and support advocacy as a one of the most important activities of the CMA.

BULLSHIT!

During the past twelve years since the passing of the MMAR the Canadian Medical Profession has indulged in avoidance of their duty as physicians.

The Canadian Medical Association has proven itself a two faced bunch of liars who under the leadership of Dr. Anna Reid are intentionally advising their members to avoid their responsibility to their patients by obstructing the Medical Use of Marijuana. The Association has taken full advantage of the gross mismanagement of the Medical Marihuana Access Program by Health Canada to lever themselves into a position where they can think they can dictate the future of the new Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations. and the provincial Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons are unanimously following the CMA’s lead into dishonor

How dare I accuse these two honorable Canadian Institutions of doing such a bad nasty thing? Because twelve years ago at the beginning of the MMAR, and its Medical Marijuana Access Program, the CMA was all for the idea and even was proposing further decriminalization in its Journal. Unfortunately the commercialization of the entire Medical Profession resulted not in a concern with their patient’s welfare but rather with the financial consequences and potential for Legal Liability.

In 2011 Health Canada’s tranquility was disturbed by a sudden influx of applications that was entirely unexpected and overloaded their improperly designed system of control. They set out to punish whoever was responsible for wrecking their ill conceived mismanagement of Medical Marijuana. That turned out to be Dr. Rob Kamermans, honoring his Oath, doing his duty as a Physician, and signing as many applications as he could. It was a good but futile effort to mitigate and correct the harm being done by the Canadian Medical Association’s suggestion to Doctors that Big Brother was not in favor of legal signing, it would bugger up the game plan with Ottawa.

Dr. Rob Kamermans and his wife Mary are both Canadian citizens, Medical professionals with excellent reputations who returned to Canada in 2008 to resume Canadian Residency and provide service to the community of Coe Hill, Ont. They did well and he began picking up work as an excellent ER doctor. Using their money as leverage they borrowed a lot more and invested it in the practice, a clinic and the Coe Hill community. Everything was going as planned and the clinic was an asset to a community who needed medical service.

Then in mid-2009 a patient walked in with a Form B application for Medical Marijuana, provided a Certificate of Diagnosis from his Doctor and requested he sign it. This was the first time that Dr. Kamermans signature was requested for an application, and he didn’t know what to do. He thoroughly checked and what he found out decided him to sign the application. He found out it was not a matter of legal risk. By signing he was not “Prescribing”, he was not “Authorizing”, he was “Declaring” that this patient qualified for a License to Possess Marijuana. Dr. Kamermans stepped off the cliff.
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At the time Dr. Kamermans entered the scene, the mismanagement of the Government combined with the duplicity of the C.M.A., was successfully building a backlog of patients desperate to get a license and unable to find any Doctor who would sign their MMAR Form B. He was totally unaware of it but the escalating nature of this backlog created a trap that he with his code of honor could not avoid.

When the time came to make a decision regarding signing, he was compelled to do so by honorable observance of the Hippocratic Oath. He was further compelled to try and mitigate and relieve the harm being done to Applicants by his fellow CMA Members.

Your mass refusal to sign applications was an intentional blockade of the only legal route by which a qualified applicant could get a license. Unlike the CMA he was very aware of the testimonial effects of cannabis and accepted their credibility. He was neither authorizing nor prescribing Marijuana but a close examination of the form revealed that he was simply signing a declaration the patient met Application standards to be furthered to Health Canada for final approval and licensing.

On Jan 26, 2012 the Ontario Gestapo invaded his office, arrested him seized 4100 confidential Medical files containing all the Medical Marijuana Application forms he had signed. Over the course of the past two years he has been publicly persecuted and ruined but has not been convicted of anything yet. The 4100 Personal Private Medical Patient files have been opened and their privacy violated on the basis of one single Search warrant.

What happened to the warrant for each of those files required by CMA POLICY regarding third party access by non-medical personnel?

When the Ontario Provincial Pricks decided not to return these essential Medical Documents back to one of your Members patients you did nothing to help get them back.

I can understand the C.M.A. dismissing Dr. Kamermans as a pain in the ass causing problems and siccing the suckhole College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario on him to get rid of the embarrassment.

I cannot understand how you could simply walk away from 4100 of the patients you purport to support and just fucking ignore that they are being made victims of Criminal Negligence by the OPP.

You must be fully aware that all 4100 Licenses have now expired!

Where the fuck do you get off, even now, more bitterly opposing any of your members signing any application including those 4100 renewals? To me that amounts to intentional Secondary Victimization of a pool of patients completely helpless and dependant on you their Doctors. By betraying your watered down Oath you became deserving of another Oath as a title:

RAT FUCKING BASTARD

You will have to admit it is well earned. You deserve it!

There has to be something more critical to the future of Medicine than the imaginary risk factors you regurgitate?

Maybe it’s that damned question again:

“What If the Fucking Stuff Works?”

That unfortunately for you lot is turning into a major possibility.

WHY?

Doctor Sanjay Gupta,

Note I use the honorific respectfully: as it should be if earned.

When Doctor Gupta aired his special “WEED” on CNN he shot a great big arrow of TRUTH into the air and when it came down it hit the Yukon: and it blew up the mountain of frozen Bullshit where Dr. Anna Reid lives. He just threw her Presidency of the CMA as a source of pride into the cesspool of Malfeasance in office. She’s a fucking liar but she has good reason to conceal the truth if it turns out the answer to that damned question, remember

“What If the Fucking Stuff Works?”
is
YES!


The Single Most Obscene, Offensive, Threatening and Feared Word

in the

Medical Lexicon

Is

CURE!

Think of the consequences. Recent research shows a variety of illnesses the marijuana helps relieve: but the biggest threat to the Medical Community right now is its effect on Cancer.

There have been validated reports that in many instances a variety of Cancers have been Cured by the use of Marijuana or its derivative oils and extracts. I have seen documented proof and pictures of a Melanoma shrinking from a ½ inch black pit to a shiny pink blemish in the course of a couple of months. I have Facebook friends and allies who have cured themselves but then they don’t count.

Where have you and the CMA been Dr. Reid? I gather for all your desire to base your medical support of Cannabis on those statistically significant pharmacological type studies you have simply been denying their existence and once again indulging in lies to protect the industry. Here’s some of what you all were missing:


Harvard Study says Marijuana Cures Cancer

National Cancer Institute-Cannabis and Cannabinoids (PDQ®)
 
20 Medical Studies That Prove Cannabis Can Cure Cancer
34 Medical Studies Proving Cannabis Cures Cancer

 

Marijuana And Cancer: Scientists Find Cannabis Compound Stops Metastasis In Aggressive Cancers


The damage that can be done to this medical specialty is probably best illustrated by the cost of curing a brain tumor with a couple of drops a day of a cannabinoid extract under the tongue. What does the Medical Money Machine lose if a Cancer surgeon cures his patient with some Happy Oil instead of his usual slice and dice treatment?

The Machine will lose big time from just that one patient:

1.    No fee for surgery for the Doctor
2.    No work for his OR staff- Doctors and nurses
3.    No hospital stay= no need for all the hospital staff providing after care
4.    No business for the contractors providing services
5.    No need for expensive pharmaceuticals on a continuing basis
6.    No need for repeat procedures with chemotherapy No repeat consultation fees.
7.    No Lab tests or x-rays or MRI’s or ultrasounds or any of the extremely overprices services controlled by you all through your corporate status.

I’m going to wind this up on a hopeful note because I think that is coming and all of us, the long time victims of your greed are going to get some payback. I hope we will get to watch you get ruined and it couldn’t happen to a more deserving lot of fakes.

You!
Dr. I. M. Greedy, MD, FRCS, CPSO
  
have a future ahead of you of watching your Turkshead Knot of intertwined Corporate investments dry up for lack of customers. You shouldn’t have betrayed your patients, it’s habit forming. Too bad it bit you back and you betrayed yourself. I love it.

In conclusion it would be nice if Dr. Reid would have the courage to openly address the Canadian public she purports to be protecting and explain hers and the CMA Board of Governors duplicity and deception in representing a profession where truth is supposed to be paramount in the Doctor/Patient relationship.

That will not happen: but, considering their malfeasance in discharging CMA official policy the whole crew should all be chucked the hell out of any control position and replaced by someone with integrity. That will of course be extremely difficult considering the ethical deficit extant in their current membership. In reality given the obscene number of Board occupants, finding that many replacements with any semblance of Character verges on the impossible.

Blaine Barrett



Tuesday, 3 September 2013

The Two Faces of Dr Danial Schecter


He Mirrors the Ethical Decay of the CMA.

and

He Owes an Apology to a Far Better Doctor Than He!


In the middle of this month I ran across this article in the National Post.

Doctors planning clinic devoted solely to medical marijuana hoping to avoid legal quagmire over cannabis prescriptions



I got excited because it was written by Tom Blackburn and in a prior article about Dr. Rob Kamermans he had checked his facts with my Blog articles as had been suggested he do by Dr. K. I assumed he would have done the same with this new article. I was wrong. Since he didn’t have my blog to plagiarize he couldn’t be bothered to verify the crap spouted by Dr. Danial Schecter .

Let’s get some facts straight

All the patients Dr. Kamermans signed for had documentation signed by another fucking Doctor. All 4100 Form B’s that Dr. Kamermans signed were not his diagnosis but simply a declaration that on the basis of valid medical assessments these patients met Form B requirements. They arrived with documentation and payment. Their doctors had diagnosed them with a condition serious enough to qualify for cannabis. Then they showed their true character and ethical shortcomings: they all, thought “Fuck the Doctor/Patient relationship” and in accordance with the CMA’s stupid obstructive advice would not sign.

“Fuck the patient, obey Big Brother!” was acceptable policy for all 67000 CMA members. If they had honored their Oath they would not have created the backlog that so appalled Dr. Kamermans. He had to help their castoffs to relieve the harm created by CMA hypocrisy.

I don’t recall ever hearing of Dr. Danial Schecter or his signing any forms until the Post article appeared.

Where fuck was he when 4000 desperate patients were looking for him two years ago? I checked up on the good Doctor and discovered he’s a partner with Dr. Ira Price and his shyster Lawyer

I think Dr. Schecter’s motive in this statement is quite obvious: he’s trying to save face for the profession when he states:

“If physicians are seen making lots of money off of cannabis, that’s not going to look good.”


I guess that is why he doesn’t disclose his fee structure for his new business venture. My grapevine tells me he charges $280 for a less than a couple of grams signature, if you need more you get referred to his lawyer and then you really get fucked over. Now that is not looking good!

Big deal! Cannabis is irrelevant! Why doesn’t he condemn all his fellow physicians profiteering by sucking up to Big Pharma and prescribing all the drugs responsible for Pharmaceutical deaths and side effects?  Doctors in Canada are killers prescribing poisons as declared by one MP who actually took the time to check the numbers out and condemns the Profession, Terence Young, Member of Parliament for Oakville, Ontario



Dr.. Schecter begins his condemnation of Dr. Kamermans:



“Dr. Schecter said the key is to assess patients with proper diligence, noting that he has seen some of Dr. Kamermans’ former patients and would not have prescribed marijuana to them”.
.

That is sheer fucking arrogance and a bullshit comparison of proper diligence and his. What is the basis of his judgment and how does he know anything about Dr. Kamermans improper diligence? What does smartass have to work with?
He can’t make any comparison. When he looked at this patient he would reject, it was two years after Dr. Kamermans saw him. He has no idea how that patient physically presented at that time and doesn’t bother to point out the possibility that the Cannabis provided by Dr. Kamermans’ was responsible for his improved condition.
He has no access to any of those patients medical files, he has no idea what paperwork was submitted or anything else that might be relevant to the patient’s treatment and only states that patient’s fee as relevant to “making lots of money off of cannabis”?
He fails to note that the patient there to see him has to be totally reassessed because he cannot get access to the patient’s files and previous diagnostic history. Why not? Because the Cops are still holding them and committing Criminal Negligence under Section 219- Criminal Code of Canada. His only source of information is his own imagination and even that sucks

Dr. Schecter has no basis for his personal judgment of Dr. Kamermans performance as a physician and he should have kept his mouth shut but he didn’t. At least if any reader is still interested in his service they will be forewarned to ask “How much will you sign for Doc, and what’s it going to cost me? before they even book an appointment.

So There!
Blaine Barrett



Friday, 16 August 2013

Whatcha Gonna Do For Me? Me? Me?


Hey there! My MP!

Whatcha Gonna Do For Me? Me? Me?


As it now stands, as of April next year the Harper Government is going to change the laws and outlaw personal growth of cannabis. Mandatory criminal charges and sentencing for anyone caught growing over 5 plants wil back up this new twist on prohibition. That is cruel and unusual punishment being inflicted on anyone needing medication but unable to afford it under the new pricing that will result from their new supply and distribution. The Harpocrits claim that this is going to result in a price level around the $8 level but given the framework of the deal as I see it, they believe they can implement a cartel of producers coordinated by Ottawa, LOL . They want to maintain a monopoly of supply with pricing the least of the concerns. 
I smell GREED!

Big Pharma? Big Business? Big Finance? Tobacco?
Big Crooks the Lot!

Who’s going to grow it?

I guess it will be the successful bidders who can come up with a small fortune to invest in a seat on the cartel and can wait till hell freezes over to realize a profit.
Why a small fortune? The initial set-up investment, operating costs, the size of the market, outside services i.e. QC, technical services for inspections and testing on a continual basis to ensure regulatory compliance,  +++ 

I don’t know how big the market for medicinal pot is right now and neither does anyone else: supposedly 20,000 buyers but growing to half a million in short order. Somebody’s going to be damned busy trying to just figure out how far and how fast any successful bidder can get to a break even point.

Health Canada has made the system so damned complex with regulatory overkill that the casualty rate in the first year is going to be disastrous. As of April 1, 2014 nobody will have any customers but the will have to have stock on hand. When do you start to grow? That’s easy, One grow cycle before April 1! How much? What kind of cannabis? How many strains? What’s that going to cost? How long will it stay on the shelf before we can get our money back? Where do I get customers? What do I charge or do we have a cartel price? I‘ve watched businesses start and fail for 50+ years and there’s disaster on the horizon come the big day. It’s going to be a bureaucratic fuck-up of massive proportions: that’s a guarantee.

So What’s the Point?

My point is that regardless of the mess they create and have on hand when the starting gate opens next April, if I grow my own medication,
I will immediately become a felon, subject to Criminal Code charges under the Controlled Substances Act and a mandatory sentence in one of Harpo’s new accommodations (you remember,for all those cells to handle the unreported crimes Stockwell Day predicted before he fled Cabinet). Harpo couldn’t let his buddy Stockwell be wrong: he had to do something to get his cellblocks loaded so he just created some new crimes to be reported.

I’m simply asking all Members of Parliament, what they are prepared to do to protect you, their constituent and supporter, from Harpo’s cruel and unusual punishment for growing my own medication.

I don’t want to spend my retirement years in prison!


I need Cannabis and can’t afford enough now

Whatcha Gonna Do For  Me? Me? Me?


Saturday, 27 July 2013

What was I thinking?



What was I thinking?

Damn good question!

It made me do a whole lot more!





The day after I posted I HATE TWO-FACED POLITICIANS (which follows this one), I received a question from a Reader that threw me. A friend Eric requested I answer a question from Jodie. She had asked him a question about my post about M.P. Jean Crowder and the odor crisis in Shawinigan Falls. I agreed to answer before I saw it.



This reader, whoever she is, is one smart girl because she thinks like me! She read my post and it didn’t gel with her perspective of the situation and she was questioning MY logic and reasoning! In short her question boiled down to:

“Are you nuts?”



I wasn’t sure, so I read my post as if I had not written it

Following find her question and my attempt to defend myself:



Jodie: 
I’m not sure I understand the writer's problem with the MPs statement. Nowhere does she state that she doesn't support medical marijuana. The NDP were the first party to support, and have consistently for years. What she does say is that if somebody is given a license to grow for the government, they still have to obey local bylaws. That is just common sense. As for a more commercial model of grow-ops, she says that is coming.... she doesn't say that she supports that model.
Personally, I don't like either model. People should be allowed to have a couple of plants for personal use, medical or recreational.


To answer your question Jodie: I was prompted to write the post because it’s a one-sided half picture of the problem being reported. It’s a collaboration of the two main sources of misinformation that have helped create the negative impression that the public has regarding Medical Marijuana. The “Press” who ignore critical little details in their attempt to report exaggeration as the “Truth” and Politicians who ignore obvious truths in their propagandizing of whatever position they hold this week. Both these sources speak with perceived authority from a position of respect and readers deserve a more balanced presentation of fact.


In this instance the reporter did a lousy job of reporting with information probably received via e-mail or phone and no first hand information at all. Readers might have been interested in who this Skunkman is and what he had to say in his own defense? How many plants? He’s a dedicated grower: How many patients is he supplying? Just how sick are they? What terrible diseases? What are they allowed as a dose. How bad was the smell? 

She has no first hand knowledge to judge whether the complaint is justified, or a fiction concocted by ignorant neighbors to eliminate the criminal element and all the safety hazards that just moved in next door?


I don’t think the reporter has any intention of following up on this outrage to let her public know the result when it happens, do you? I didn’t like chewing out another reporter but if she gets another shot at anything to do with Medical Marijuana she will report it with a lot more attention to detail and accuracy than she did here. That lack of detail may well apply to her reporting of Ms. Crowder’s remarks that made up the second half of her composition so I allow more leeway regarding her statements.


I didn’t want to mention Ms. Crowder, but what she was reported as saying was totally misleading. She should not have commented about the personal growth issue because she obviously has no idea how complex this subject is. 


To begin the article she is reported as almost recommending that Municipalities enact bylaws to control the problem of personal growth. She is totally unaware that by doing so she is encouraging them to follow the example of Surrey who has enacted a bylaw so prohibitive to personal growth it is virtually impossible to meet compliance requirements much less the $5000 initial fee application. 

The basis for the ridiculous operating requirements of the MMRP is found in the Surrey bylaw. Both are designed with a Complexity requiring the expenditure of a fortune for a ridiculously Ultra High Tech Security System: a multiplicity of unnecessary Quality Control tests and Production methods. 

She should have kept her mouth shut but her performance was very illustrative of the stereotypical performance of nearly every politician confronted with a question about something they know very little about. Bafflegab!


Unfortunately for Ms. Crowder these are her constituents and she musr reassure them and let them know she has their best interests at heart. She announces there will be an end to the problem as soon as the commercializing of supply planned by the Harperites will bring an end to this terrible offensive odor activity. 

I got the impression she is pleased the Cons are going to end her problem and completely ignorant of the consequences on Medical Marijuana. If everyone just holds their nose till next spring, all you’ll smell is flowers. There is no sign of awareness that this will be disastrous on the lives of the Patients dependant on their grower for their medication. She’s condemning them to pain and puke and is completely unaware of reality.


We now are near the conclusion of the article and Ms. Crowder made me laugh with her presentation of false power and influence on the Con Government Ministry of Health! LOLOLOL!!!


Jodie, in conclusion there is no way the Ms. Crowder will be able to gain attention for a constituent complaint unless it is a life or death matter. HC ignores the Supreme Court for crying out loud: do you think for a moment they will pay attention to a minor backbencher in an Opposition party for a complaint as serious as a smell? LOL again!



Jodie: I don’t know if I answered your question to your satisfaction but that is my attempt and I’m out of steam. If you would like to reply for any further questions please reply to my E-mail. That’s private and my embarrassment is not meant to be visible! thesmeegoanguy@gmail.ca


Once again thanks for the question. I need a good kick once in a while and you’re the first reader who paid enough attention to notice and come through with the necessary attitude adjustment. Ouch!

With deep regards

Blaine





Tuesday, 22 January 2013

How To Apply To Grow Pot legally



How To Apply To Grow Pot legally.

I wish all my friends did this

Tracie:
You have no idea how much I appreciate your providing me with their turn–down letter. I intend to publish it and answer the question that every potential legal grower needs answered. 

Can I qualify as a Legal Grower under the new rules?

You gave a lot of people some damn good information that has not been available to them and I’m going to acknowledge its source. I have no idea who you are just “Tracie out of the Blue) but you deserve credit. You just helped a lot of friends.
Thanks
Blaine

To: Tracie
Subject: Re: Applying for R & D with marijuana for medical proposes

Due to the high volume of requests regarding research and development
activities with marihuana for medical purposes, please note that the
Office of Controlled Substances will not respond to specific questions
until the required information listed below is received.
 This includes
questions related to a legal supply of seeds, security requirements,
information on which licence and/or exemption is required or criminal
record checks.

Thank you for your interest in research and development activities with
marihuana for medical purposes.  On December 15th, the proposed Marihuana
for Medical Purposes Regulations (MMPR) were pre-published in the
Canada
Gazette, Part I.  The full text of the proposed regulations is available
here:
http://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2012/2012-12-15/html/reg4-eng.html

A Notice to Interested Parties, also published in the Canada Gazette, Part
I, describes the mechanisms and the required information and documents for
parties who are considering becoming an LP and are interested in engaging
in research and development activities.  The full text of the Notice is
available here:
http://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2012/2012-12-15/html/notice-avis-eng.html#d111

Interested parties wishing to conduct research and development activities
must provide Health Canada with a letter expressing their interest and
providing the following information, as applicable:
·       a statement indicating that these research and development
activities are being conducted with the intent of eventually applying to
become a licensed producer;
·       a declaration from the applicant that the municipality, local law
enforcement, and local fire officials where the proposed activities are to
be conducted have been notified of the proposed research and development
activities with marihuana;
·       valid criminal record checks of the person responsible for the
licence or exemption, the person in charge of the research project, if
applicable, and the person in charge of production, indicating that they
have not been convicted, as an adult, within the preceding 10 years, of a
designated drug offence or a designated criminal offence as these terms
are defined in the Narcotic Control Regulations (
NCR); and
·       a letter from the owner of the proposed location where the
proposed activities are to be conducted indicating that there is no
objection to its use for marihuana production if the location is not owned
by the applicant.

The information must be submitted to the Office of Controlled Substances
by email at OCS-BSC@hc-sc.gc.ca or by mail at the following address:

Office of Controlled Substances
Controlled Substances and Tobacco Directorate
Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch
Health Canada, AL: 3503A
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 1B9

Once this information has been received, it will be reviewed and an
officer will contact the interested party within 10 business days.
Information regarding the application process and questions, including
information regarding the availability of a legal supply of seeds or
marihuana for research and development activities, can be discussed at
that time.

Just Fucking Ridiculous!